New York State Senator

Michelle Hinchey 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 3)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00597

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
6/10/25  
Refer
6/10/25  
Establishes the "small water utility transparency act"; requires the public service commission and the department of environmental conservation to conduct audits of certain private water companies; requires certain private water companies which are under certain investigations to file public updates on the status of compliance with such orders.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00596

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/13/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Engrossed
5/29/25  
Enrolled
12/8/25  
Chaptered
12/19/25  
Provides a rebuttable presumption relating to recertification as a minority and women-owned business enterprise if there is no change in the ownership of the enterprise and no material change in the nature or management of the enterprise from the time of approval of the previous minority and women-owned business enterprise certification.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00598

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
1/21/25  
Engrossed
5/28/25  
Refer
5/28/25  
Engrossed
6/6/25  
Enrolled
10/9/25  
Chaptered
10/16/25  
Establishes a state frontotemporal degeneration registry; defines terms; requires every physician, nurse practitioner, nurse physician assistant and general hospital that diagnoses or is treating a patient diagnosed with an FTD disorder to give notice to the department; requires certain information to be confidential; sets forth the duties of the commissioner of health; requires the department of health to create and maintain a webpage.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00600

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
4/30/25  
Refer
4/30/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/9/26  
Requires certain municipal planning boards and zoning boards of appeals to receive at least one hour of environmentally conscious planning training annually.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00595

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/3/25  
Engrossed
6/11/25  
Refer
6/11/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Establishes the small rental housing development initiative to provide funding to eligible applicants to construct small rental housing developments in eligible areas.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00591

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Permits a school food authority to attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast program to the thirty percent of costs for school breakfast, snack and lunch service programs.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00820

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
2/24/25  
Refer
2/24/25  
Engrossed
2/25/25  
Enrolled
2/28/25  
Chaptered
2/28/25  
Amends a chapter of 2024 regulating short-term rentals; provides local option; provides for the collection of taxes.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00780

Introduced
1/8/25  
Expands the definition of crops, livestock and livestock products to include cannabis when cultivated in accordance with the cannabis law; amends the effectiveness thereof.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00793

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
1/22/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Engrossed
1/28/25  
Enrolled
2/12/25  
Chaptered
2/14/25  
Provides that upon a vacancy, the council of the arts shall not be deemed out of compliance with the requirement that each of the ten regions of the state be represented by at least one member of the council so long as such vacancy is filled within a reasonable time and the appointment made for such new vacancy moves the composition of the council closer to such requirement.

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00563

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Enacts the good jobs guarantee program to provide workforce training and opportunities for employment for residents of New York state to secure high paying jobs through the acquisition of job skills.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00187

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
5/21/25  
Prohibits the sale of certain products that contain regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires manufacturers of products containing PFAS to provide notice of such fact to persons that offer the products for sale or distribution; provides penalties for violations.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00315

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Engrossed
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Engrossed
2/26/26  
Establishes a temporary New York craft beverage permit for all New York state manufactured liquor, spirits, wine, beer, cider and mead for events located in a municipality with a population of less than one million.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00316

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Prohibits governmental entities from entering into agreements to house individuals in immigration detention facilities; requires governmental entities to terminate existing contracts for the detention of individuals in immigration detention facilities.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00342

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/8/25  
Refer
1/7/26  
Establishes the "earned time act" providing for time allowances against the term or maximum term of sentences imposed by the court to be credited on an annual pro rata basis.
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New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S00358

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
4/29/25  
Removes certain restrictions on eligibility for personal and home care services under medicaid.